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@lavsplack.bsky.social

Mom and grandma, knitter and reader.

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Oh this is darling! My granddaughter just got an AG doll and she loves cats. Did you create your own doll pattern?

26.07.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

21.06.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 34610    πŸ” 8889    πŸ’¬ 640    πŸ“Œ 263
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Proud of my local paper!

15.06.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow something I actually qualify for πŸ˜‚

15.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So cute! Is there a pattern?

15.06.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

10.06.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 15022    πŸ” 5314    πŸ’¬ 659    πŸ“Œ 288
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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

10.06.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16656    πŸ” 5592    πŸ’¬ 509    πŸ“Œ 249
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

08.06.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 47252    πŸ” 14640    πŸ’¬ 2994    πŸ“Œ 1386
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

06.06.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 19395    πŸ” 10358    πŸ’¬ 949    πŸ“Œ 970
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.

But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders β€” pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.

Where is the outrage over that?

04.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 27305    πŸ” 10714    πŸ’¬ 893    πŸ“Œ 559
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Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.

Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

21.05.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20700    πŸ” 6021    πŸ’¬ 727    πŸ“Œ 297

Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC

21.05.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 977    πŸ” 209    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.

22.05.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13150    πŸ” 3412    πŸ’¬ 334    πŸ“Œ 105
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."

22.05.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6771    πŸ” 2286    πŸ’¬ 308    πŸ“Œ 94

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

15.05.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9348    πŸ” 2122    πŸ’¬ 185    πŸ“Œ 135
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Social Security Is Affordable and Popular - WORT-FM 89.9 On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with Nancy J. Altman about the status of Social Security under the Trump administration.

99% of Social Security's revenue goes directly to beneficiaries and 99.7% of benefits are paid accurately and on time.

But DOGE is creating the conditions for waste, fraud, and abuse as they cut staff and close field offices across the country.

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

13.05.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 51074    πŸ” 12977    πŸ’¬ 1266    πŸ“Œ 929

Jfc what is wrong with you

06.05.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.

05.05.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9020    πŸ” 2126    πŸ’¬ 202    πŸ“Œ 99
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Yesterday, editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. In January, she resigned from the Washington Post after 17 years following the paper's leadership killing her cartoon below.

Read: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democracy-...

06.05.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1923    πŸ” 476    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 22

Love all of it!

06.05.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said β€œhow are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

06.05.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 25396    πŸ” 7128    πŸ’¬ 665    πŸ“Œ 296

Omg perfect

06.05.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Asked on Meet the Press if he is required to "uphold the Constitution," he replies, "I don't know." Perhaps he does not recall taking the oath of office twice and swearing before the American public "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."

05.05.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 939    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 6

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

05.05.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26244    πŸ” 6980    πŸ’¬ 925    πŸ“Œ 597
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The latest Fed survey shows how companies are responding to higher tariffs, and the top response is that companies are passing cost increases through to consumers.

In last place: "Relocating production or services to the U.S.”

Source: www.apolloacademy.com/how-are-firm...

05.05.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4378    πŸ” 1715    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 132

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:

He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution

He’s fine with a recession

Americans can do with less

Small businesses are just β€œa couple of little businesses”

04.05.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 24956    πŸ” 9126    πŸ’¬ 1280    πŸ“Œ 693

The physical embodiment of Greed thinks other people can get by with fewer goods.

04.05.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1336    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 9

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